Many employees leave work due to illness or disability. Current Government policy emphasises moving people from claiming benefits into work. The intention of the Bill is to retain people in work and thereby to reduce the numbers who have to claim benefits in the first place. The Bill would amend the Employment Rights Act 1996 to ensure that:employment retention assessments will be provided for newly disabled people and people whose existing impairments changeentitlement to rehabilitation leave will be established on the basis of these assessments in the hope that this will avoid loss of employment.
House of Commons
30 October 2008
This bill would change the Employment Rights Act 1996 to require employment retention assessments for people who become newly disabled, and for those whose existing impairments change and affect rehabilitation leave entitlements. The idea is to use the results of these assessments to help people stay in work, with the broader aim of reducing the number of people who end up claiming benefits.
The bill is currently at the second reading in the House of Commons, an early stage in the legislative process.
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